Just For Fun

Wearing Sunday Riley Eyeshadows in French Press, Siberian Sable and Little Black Dress on my eyes, and Sunday Riley Blush in Intimate on my cheeks

Favorite? I couldn’t pick just one because I’ve been into a few lately. 🙂

For makeup — Sunday Riley. It’s a smaller luxury line, currently only carried at Barneys New York and Bergdorf Goodman stores. They make both skin care and cosmetics, but it’s their color products, in particular their shadows and blushes, that I really like.

Sunday’s $26 Prismasilk Eye Colors remind me of NARS. They’re super pigmented, a breeze to blend and stay put all day long.

And the blush? Sonnets could be written in its honor. In almost all of my pics lately, I’m wearing Sunday’s Intimate Blush ($30).

Something about it just glows.

I also gotta give props to a couple of my indie faves, Becca and Hourglass.

Great textures, pretty packaging, and their products are consistently elegant and approachable.

The new Becca Balearic Love collection is so hot!
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1. Mood:

Steady, and surprisingly calm, which is a welcome change from last week, which was unusually rough for me. I’d been feeling a little run down and mentally drained, but I was able to squeeze in a whole lot of nothing last weekend, and it really helped. I slept in, did some reading, worked out a couple times, stared out the window…

Sure, the house is a mess because I didn’t do any cleaning, but today, in the greater scheme of things, I’ll take that.

2. Pastel eye makeup: your thoughts?

Ya know, I like it. Sometimes I’ll do a swish of pastel liner along my lash lines or a slice of pastel eyeshadow on my lids — usually something more like that than an uninterrupted block of pastel color from lid to lash line, which, I don’t know, can seem a little bit much, especially if all I’ve got going on is a trip to Petco.

3. When was the last time you played on a trampoline?

Um…never? But I’ve heard it’s fun.

4. Your favorite cereal?

Does oatmeal count? I think it does. 🙂

5. Tell me something about your morning:

Tabs somehow shut himself in the hallway closet downstairs and must have been in there for gawd knows how long.

I hadn’t seen him in a while and just assumed he was ignoring me. I was upstairs listening to music in my office, so I couldn’t hear the meows he was undoubtedly making until I went downstairs to freshen my tea.

That’s when I heard a very upset tabby cat. “MROWWW! MEEEOW! MROWWW! DAMNIT!”

He must have zipped in there when El Hub opened the door to grab his jacket before leaving for work. Knowing Tabs, he probably assumed he’d have in-and-out closet privileges.

6. Okay, this one’s a little weird…but if you had to pick up and leave tomorrow to spend a year living in a different country, which country would it be?

With no time to plan, I’d pick a place where the language would be less of a hurdle for me, like Australia, Canada or England. I’m all for adventure and learning new things, but a year is a long time. I’d want to be able to do things like buy car insurance and talk to a doctor without too much hassle.

Now, instead of leaving tomorrow, if I had a few months to prepare, I’d choose France or Spain (the food!).

7. Peter Pan shirt collars: yay or nay?

Well…they looked good on Peter, and I like them on other people, but nay on me.

8. Last time you washed your makeup brushes?

About an hour ago with Burt’s Bees soap (try it; it’s life changing!).

9. A beauty trend that freaks you out?

I saw some press-on French manicure toenails at the drugstore the other day and felt a little queasy.

10. Weekly goals:

Just to be kinder to myself than I was last week, and to try to have a little fun each and every day.

Missed you last weekend, on account of my head, which was buried in Hunger Games books. 🙂 If you have a moment and feel like checking in this morning, please do. I could use a friendly hello in today’s Monday Poll.

1. Mood:
2. Pastel eye makeup: your thoughts?
3. When was the last time you played on a trampoline?
4. Your favorite cereal?
5. Tell me something about your morning:
6. You’re leaving tomorrow to spend a year in which country?
7. Peter Pan shirt collars: yay or nay?
8. Last time you washed your makeup brushes?
9. A beauty trend that freaks you out?
10. Weekly goals:

How about we make a deal? Let’s both promise to be extra kind to ourselves this week. Doesn’t that sound good? 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Most of the ones that pop into my head first are from MAC, like the Fabulous Felines collection from fall 2010? With the kitties! That has to be one of my favorite makeup marketing campaigns of all time.

And then there’s MAC Chenman, which is on counters now. I just think the imagery and the references to water are very pretty, and oh! — the MAC Originals collection from back in 2007, with the older woman with the cane.

She was pimpin’. 🙂

Now that I think about it, a bunch of other campaigns are coming to mind, like the print ads for the Bobbi Brown Ivy League collection. That had some pretty cool imagery in it with the preppy tweed styling.

And Chanel has had a bunch of visually interesting marketing campaigns over the years, but one that’s occurring to me now — and I’m not sure if it was the official campaign or just a beautiful backstage photo — was for Les Trompe-L’oeil de Chanel, the Chanel temporary tattoos release, with the model wearing the tats on her neck and shoulders? I thought that was very neat.

I also think Benefit has done some interesting campaigns over the years, like recently with their B.Right! line. I love the image of the girl wearing the lamp shade as a hat.

When you think of beautiful makeup marketing campaigns, what are the first ones that come to mind?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. El Hub and I are already back from our St. Patrick’s Day feast. We just went to a brewery/restaurant here in town called Moylans. I got my fish and chip on, haaay!

Now, I’m gonna sit on the couch with my copy of Catching Fire (I’m just about to start Part 2: The Quell!).

Hope you had a nice St. Patrick’s Day. 🙂